The Creature is extremely vindictive. He is born and then abandoned, and he is reviled by all he meets for his ugliness. He feels he has been given an unfair hand by fate and by the humans too shocked by his appearance to give him a chance. As the Creature famously tells his creator, "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear." This is the credo by which he lives the rest of his life.
The Creature lashes out at the world for its rejection of him. When he realizes William is Victor's brother, he kills him, then frames the innocent Justine for the crime, allowing her to be executed with no remorse. In this way, the Creature has let the world's cruelty toward him infect his interactions with other people; he becomes the very thing he so hates.
In addition to this, the Creature takes sadistic pleasure in hurting Victor. He rejoices that the pain inflicted upon him has been returned to the one responsible for his alienation and suffering.
In all honesty, the creation possesses the same negative qualities that human beings have. He can get incredibly angry and resentful, even destructive, when he's been treated poorly. For example, when his overture of friendship has been rejected by the DeLaceys and he learns that they are moving far away because of their fear of him, he burns their house down. Further, after he's been shot by the hunter for saving the little girl from drowning, he attempts to kidnap William Frankenstein, Victor's youngest brother, in order to educate the child and raise the child as his friend. He does desperately want a companion, but it is selfish to kidnap a person in an attempt to create one. Moreover, the creature then kills William when the child calls him mean names, and he rejoices in his ability to create pain and fear in his creator. The happiness he feels when he thinks of the pain he can cause another person is certainly a negative quality as well.
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